Fred Trump III, the nephew of former President Donald Trump, mentioned his uncle is “atomic loopy,” that he witnessed him utilizing racial slurs a long time in the past — and that he plans to vote for Kamala Harris.

The Trump method was to be “advanced and typically merciless,” Fred Trump mentioned in an interview with ABC Information’ Aaron Katersky.

“And inside each household — folks know this — households are sophisticated. Each household has their loopy uncle. My Uncle Donald is atomic loopy. And … he has put his mark on the household historical past,” he mentioned, as he promoted his new ebook, “All within the Household: The Trumps and How We Bought This Approach.”

Pressed to elucidate additional, Fred Trump mentioned it “means he does issues that, at the same time as a lot as I do know him when he is on the market now, I form of shudder and say, ‘Is that this the identical man I knew? What’s making him change? … What obtained him this manner?’ However that each one being mentioned, I’ve all the time had a great relationship.”

He added, “However he is executed actually horrific issues to me, which some folks will say, ‘How may you continue to need to have a relationship with him?’ He is my uncle. He is household, and meaning so much.”

Fred Trump, the son of the previous president’s late older brother Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 at 42, says he wrote the ebook partially to advocate for folks with extreme developmental disabilities, like his grownup son William. He says this newest Trump household tell-all is just not a political hit job, however fairly the “full-on fact” about his uncle, who’s the Republican nominee for president.

In a press release to ABC Information, Trump Marketing campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung denied the claims in regards to the former president.

“That is utterly fabricated and complete faux information of the very best order,” he mentioned. “It’s appalling a lie so blatantly disgusting may be printed in media. Anybody who is aware of President Trump is aware of he would by no means use such language, and false tales like this have been totally debunked.”

The youthful Trump’s new ebook features a chapter titled, “The Race Card.” In that chapter, he particulars his uncle utilizing a racial slur, he mentioned.

“I used to be about 10 years previous, and I used to be at my grandparents’ home, like I used to be so much,” Fred Trump mentioned. “And Donald — I may hear him screaming. And I went right down to the driveway of my grandparents’ home, and there was his white El Dorado convertible with two slashes. Nonetheless keep in mind it. And he had electrical tape, as a result of the roof was black. And he used the phrase — the N-word — twice simply saying who he thought in all probability had executed this.”

The previous president has persistently denied utilizing the racial slur. Fred Trump mentioned that regardless of being younger when the incident occurred, he “completely” remembered the second because it occurred.

“OK. He did twice that day,” Fred Trump mentioned when ABC Information introduced up Donald Trump’s repeated denials.

Fred Trump wrote in his ebook that some folks have labeled the previous president as racist, and a few say he’s not. However what does he imagine?

“He, at time[s], espouses issues that individuals who I imagine are racist espouses. That is the very best I can reply that query,” he mentioned.

“I do not imagine he is a racist,” Fred Trump added when pressed on the query. “I simply suppose that he makes use of folks, whether or not they’re Black or they’re — whoever may also help him he’ll use them. And, you understand, name it racist or not, I do not imagine in that. He makes use of them as props. And when he will get what he wants out of them — votes — he’ll forged them apart.”

After his uncle was elected president in 2016, Fred Trump noticed a possibility to advocate for the disabled, he mentioned.

“I used to be within the Oval Workplace 12 occasions about. And that was our mission: to advocate for folks with advanced disabilities,” he mentioned.

He added, “It culminated in Might of 2020 within the Oval Workplace. Donald was there, and he was very gracious. A number of people have been there, together with the group that we introduced down. We dispersed. I used to be requested to return and see Donald. He greeted me together with his acquainted, ‘Hey, pal. How’s it going?'”

He says he “sat down for a bit” together with his uncle.

“And he simply got here out with, ‘These folks, all of the bills. They need to simply die,'” Fred Trump recalled. “He is speaking about human beings who’ve advanced points, and the very first thing he may say was they need to simply die.”

Fred Trump mentioned the remark wasn’t an remoted incident. He described a cellphone name to alert his uncle that the medical fund arrange by the household for his son William was working low, a fund he says his uncle persistently replenished.

“A few years in the past … I referred to as him. I mentioned, ‘Donald, the fund’s working out.’ And with out hesitation, he mentioned, ‘Your son would not acknowledge you. Let him die and transfer to Florida,'” Fred Trump mentioned.

Requested if he was stunned by the remark, Fred Trump mentioned he was. He mentioned he advised his uncle that his son did acknowledge him.

“Was I stunned? I do not suppose you may hear one thing like that and never be stunned,” Fred Trump mentioned. “However that’s what he has turn out to be. It is unhappy.”

“You describe your uncle as extremely merciless. Why would you desire a relationship with him?” ABC Information requested.

“I am not gonna change him I do not suppose there’s anyone that would change him,” Fred Trump mentioned. “However I’ve all the time loved time with him. And I’d hope if he is not elected that he’ll relax. I do not know if that is doable. However my guess is I might not be welcome to any of the golf programs anymore. I will discover others. However I do thank him for the entree to these programs. I am a heck of a golfer.”

Fred Trump mentioned he deliberate to vote for Harris, however would attend the inauguration if his uncle wins and if he is invited.

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles added one other beginning pitcher earlier than Tuesday’s commerce deadline, buying left-hander Trevor Rogers from the Miami Marlins for infielder Connor Norby and outfielder Kyle Stowers.

The 26-year-old Rogers was 2-9 with a 4.53 ERA this season for the Marlins. He joins a Baltimore rotation that already added Zach Eflin from Tampa Bay.

Rogers has lowered his ERA by over a run for the reason that begin of June.

“9 or 10 actually good begins his final occasions out,” Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde mentioned. “All the time in search of beginning pitching, and hopefully he can assist us down the stretch.”

Baltimore entered Tuesday with a half-game lead within the AL East, however accidents to Kyle Bradish, John Means and Tyler Wells left the group needing beginning pitching for this 12 months and past. Eflin is below contract by the 2025 season.

Since posting a 2.64 ERA in 2021, Rogers hasn’t had one below 4.00. As a lefty, he could also be match for Baltimore, with its deep wall in left discipline.

“Undoubtedly left-handed beginning pitching is basically necessary right here. We haven’t had loads of it,” Hyde mentioned. “Groups attempt to line up their left-handed starters towards us. Normally the primary man or two out of the bullpen — we’re a left-handed lineup, however groups attempt to line up their left-handed relievers to face us.”

The Orioles did add some right-handed bats earlier than the deadline, buying outfielder Eloy Jiménez from the Chicago White Sox and outfielder Austin Slater from the Cincinnati Reds. Additionally they traded for Gregory Soto, the second reliever they’ve obtained from Philadelphia in the previous few days together with Seranthony Domínguez.

“We added a few right-handed hitters. That was necessary to present us extra choices towards left-handed pitching,” Hyde mentioned after the Orioles beat Toronto 6-2. “Seranthony tonight, you noticed him. Soto is somebody we’ve seen for some time and has pitched the again finish of video games. And it’s an excellent arm from the left aspect.”

Norby and Stowers each have some large league expertise, however every confronted obstacles to taking part in time as a result of the Orioles have a lot position-player depth. Baltimore held onto its three prospects ranked within the prime 15 by MLB Pipeline — center infielder Jackson Holliday, catcher Samuel Basallo and nook infielder Coby Mayo.

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NANTERRE, France (AP) — When it’s time to race, Kaylee McKeown is bound arduous to beat.

American Regan Smith got here into the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke on the Paris Olympics with the world file and no scarcity of confidence.

On the flip Tuesday evening, it was Smith within the lead with McKeown proper on her heels. By the point they reached the opposite finish of the pool, it was the Aussie lunging there first.

McKeown nonetheless guidelines the backstroke.

“She is a fully unbelievable racer and she or he is aware of what to do when it issues,” Smith mentioned.

Smith, who broke McKeown’s world mark with a time of 57.13 seconds on the U.S. trials final month, led on the flip however couldn’t maintain off the hard-charging Aussie, who defended the title she gained in Tokyo three years in the past.

McKeown surged to the entrance about midway via the return lap and reached for the wall in 57.33, successful by a comparatively comfy margin over Smith’s end of 57.66.

“The nerves had been undoubtedly there however I simply reminded myself it’s a pool in a unique venue, and I practice each single day of my life,” McKeown mentioned.

The U.S. additionally grabbed the bronze as Katharine Berkoff touched third in 57.98, capturing her first Olympic medal and following within the footsteps of her father, David Berkoff, who gained 4 medals — two of them gold — in Seoul and Barcelona .

Smith reached over the lane rope to congratulate McKeown, however this one needed to sting. The 22-year-old Minnesota native seemed to be in high type and primed to win her first gold medal.

As a substitute, it was McKeown capturing her fourth gold total. She swept the backstroke occasions in Tokyo and likewise claimed a relay gold.

“It’s one race at a time,” McKeown mentioned. “I’ve checked off three packing containers to date and there’s just a few extra to go.”

American swimmers are getting used to silver

It was an evening of silvers for the Individuals, who took the runner-up spots in all three of the finals.

Bobby Finke got here up brief in protection of his Olympic title within the males’s 800 freestyle, relegated to silver by Eire’s Daniel Wiffen.

The Individuals additionally completed second within the males’s 4×200 freestyle behind Britain, which captured its second straight gold in that occasion.

Via 4 days at La Protection Area, the U.S. has a bunch of medals — 15 in all — however solely two of them are gold. Seven silvers and 6 bronzes spherical out the tally.

Irish win first swimming gold since 1996

Wiffen gained Eire’s first gold medal in swimming since scandal-plagued Michelle Smith completed first in three occasions on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Wiffen surged previous Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri on the ultimate lap, trying as recent as he did at first of the grueling race.

Truly, he was in excruciating ache.

“I used to be dying the final 20 meters,” Wiffen mentioned. “I’m unsure in case you noticed that, as a result of my arms are in completely a lot ache. However I knew that the group is gonna carry me in, and that’s precisely what occurred. Then I noticed the purple gentle on the block, and that was it.”

Wiffen gained in 7 minutes, 38.19 seconds, climbing on the lane ropes to carry one finger skyward. Finke additionally got here on robust late in what was primarily a three-man race, additionally passing Paltrinieri to take the silver in 7:38.75.

The bronze went to the Italian, who posted a time of seven:39.38.

It was one other dazzling efficiency by an Irish swimmer, on the heels of Mona McSharry grabbing a bronze within the 100 breaststroke the earlier evening.

Till these Olympics, the nation’s swimming historical past was primarily confined to Smith, who surprisingly claimed three golds and a bronze in 1996 amid suspicions she was doping. She later acquired a doping ban that primarily ended her profession, however she stored her medals.

British males defend their relay title

The British males defended their title within the 4x-200 freestyle relay, holding off america and Australia.

The workforce of James Man, Tom Dean, Matthew Richards and Duncan Scott — the identical foursome that captured gold in Tokyo three years in the past — completed in 6:59.43.

The one distinction from the final Olympics was Dean took the leadoff, with Man going second. It was adequate for one more gold, Britain’s first swimming victory of the Paris Video games.

Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler and Kieran Smith gained a little bit of redemption for the Individuals with a silver medal in 7:00.78, making up for a disappointing fourth-place exhibiting on the final Olympics.

Maximillian Giuliani, Flynn Southam, Elijah Winnington and Thomas Neill earned the bronze for Australia in 7:01.98.

Doubling up

French star Léon Marchand had a really busy day, advancing to the ultimate in each the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke.

Marchand did a double within the morning preliminaries, then gutted via one other back-to-back within the night semifinals with about 80 minutes between races.

He posted a time of 1:53.50 within the fly semis, trailing solely defending Olympic champion and world-record holder Kristóf Milák of Hungary (1.52.72). Marchand was quicker than everybody within the breaststroke spherical, posting a time of two:08.11 with one other raucous dwelling crowd cheering him on.

Marchand must double up another time within the finals Wednesday, trying so as to add to the gold he earned within the 400 particular person medley.

“The French crowd has been superb for me,” he mentioned. “I’m simply actually fortunate to be in good condition this week to swim as quick as potential.”

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NANTERRE, France — American Regan Smith versus Australian Kaylee McKeown by no means appears to get outdated, whether or not they’re competing in the identical race or on reverse sides of the globe. 

And Tuesday’s girls’s 100-meter backstroke last — one of the vital extremely anticipated swimming showdowns on the 2024 Paris Olympics — didn’t disappoint. McKeown out-touched Smith by .33 seconds to win her second consecutive 100 again Olympic gold. 

Smith, 22, received silver with a time of 57.66, and fellow American Katharine Berkoff, 23, received bronze with a 57.98 swim at Paris La Défense Enviornment.

McKeown, 23, broke her personal Olympic document with a time of 57.33, decreasing the mark by .14 seconds, and have become the primary swimmer to efficiently defend her 100 again Olympic title since American Natalie Coughlin on the 2004 and 2008 Video games.

“She’s considered one of one,” Smith mentioned about McKeown. “She is a completely unimaginable racer, and she or he is aware of what to do when it issues.”

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Of the medalists, Smith was first off the block and was tied for the lead on the 50-meter mark with Canada’s Kylie Masse. McKeown was fourth on the flip earlier than exploding on the final 25 to take the lead and in the end gold.  

“You look ahead to that second a lot, and then you definitely get to the race and also you end the race, and I can not even keep in mind it now,” mentioned McKeown, who’s additionally the defending OIympic champion within the 200-meter backstroke. 

“However I knew it could come all the way down to that final 25 meters. It is one thing that I have been training for, and one thing that the People and myself are actually good at — is ending our races robust. So it’s simply gonna be whoever had it in that final 5, 10 meters.”

Whereas the 2021 Olympic document fell — albeit to the earlier proprietor — Smith’s 57.13 world document stays intact. However she and McKeown have been preventing over it for some time. 

Within the final 5 years, each swimmers have damaged the 100 again world document twice. Smith broke it in 2019, McKeown took it in 2021 earlier than decreasing it once more in 2023, and Smith reclaimed it in June at U.S. Olympic trials. 

“I wish to name it a rivalry as a result of we’ve traded world data,” Smith mentioned, “however she’s all the time good at getting it achieved when it issues. So I wish to give her the credit score the place it is due. 

“However with that being mentioned, yeah, I am extremely proud that we’ve actually solidified ourselves as the 2 quickest girls in backstroke historical past, and that is actually particular to be part of. … She’s a really real and respectful particular person, and I feel we’ve a extremely nice relationship.”

The 100 again last was all the time going to be an in depth race within the newest chapter of the decades-old storied USA-Australian swimming rivalry with Smith, McKeown and Berkoff, respectively, qualifying inside .30 seconds of one another in Monday’s semifinals. 

Masse — the 2021 Tokyo silver medalist and 2016 Rio bronze medalist within the 100 again — completed fourth, and Australia’s Iona Anderson was fifth. 

A two-time Olympian, Smith received her fourth medal on the Video games, however she’s nonetheless racing for her first gold. On the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, she was the 100 again bronze medalist and received two silvers within the 200-meter butterfly and girls’s 4×100-meter medley relay. 

“I am proud that I used to be in a position to drop [time] from semis,” mentioned Smith, who shaved off .31 seconds within the last. “That is one thing that I’ve struggled with lots previously, and I stayed in my very own lane, I executed my race plan and I left all of it within the pool.”

First-time Olympian Berkoff made historical past of her personal in Tuesday evening’s last. Her bronze was each Crew USA’s 3,000th Olympic medal and USA Swimming’s 600th OIympic medal, in accordance with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. 

She’s additionally not the primary member of her household to earn some {hardware} on the Video games. Her father, David Berkoff, is a four-time Olympic medalist and received the lads’s 100 again silver within the 1988 Seoul Video games and bronze in 1992 in Barcelona.

“He is been very supportive, simply making an attempt to remind me to remain in my very own lane, keep in mind why I am doing what I am doing and simply do it for myself and nobody else,” Berkoff mentioned. 

“I am so grateful that he obtained to be right here to observe it.”

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PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the evening earlier than maybe the largest gymnastics meet of their lives stressed.

There was a pressure within the air. They’d all been within the Olympic highlight earlier than, experiences that left them with medals but in addition the sort of scars — be they bodily, psychological or each — that heal however by no means actually go away.

And right here they had been in Paris, the leaders of a star-laden U.S. workforce everybody anticipated to complete atop the medal stand, and one thing wasn’t proper.

In a unique time, in a unique period, it might need festered. Might need adopted them onto the ground at Bercy Area and into the historical past books, too.

This isn’t a unique time. This isn’t a unique period. That is now.

So the oldest workforce the U.S. has ever despatched to the Olympics, together with a trio that has spent their respective careers breaking limitations about what a feminine gymnast can and might’t do, what they will and might’t be, did one thing they by no means used to do.

They talked, with Biles — three years faraway from a Tokyo Video games that dragged the dialog round psychological well being and sports activities kicking and screaming into the sunshine — proper in the course of it.

“I feel there was a little bit little bit of battle,” she mentioned. “So it was actually wanted.”

By the point they walked onto the ground for the Olympic last, the stress was gone, largely changed with pleasure.

And never quickly after, gold.

The self-described “Redemption Tour,” the moniker given to a workforce full of ladies who needed to return to the Video games for deeply private causes, ended with Biles and the Individuals the place they’ve virtually all the time been since she burst onto the scene 11 years in the past: on high of the rostrum, the remainder of the world wanting up.

Eight years after profitable gold in Rio with a workforce that known as Aly Raisman grandma as a result of she was all of twenty-two, Biles — now 27 and married — was again once more with Jade Carey (24), Chiles (23), Lee (21) and teenager Hezly Rivera at her facet.

“We don’t must be put within the field anymore,” Biles mentioned a few group that has dubbed itself “The Golden Women.”

No, they don’t.

With Biles at her show-stopping greatest, the Individuals’ whole of 171.296 was properly away from Italy and Brazil and the exclamation level of a yearlong run wherein Biles has cemented her legacy as the best ever in her sport, and among the many greatest within the historical past of the Olympics.

“She’s the best of all greats,” mentioned Chiles, who now has gold to go along with the workforce silver she, Lee and Biles earned in Tokyo, when Biles eliminated herself from the workforce last to guard herself.

Chiles, who appeared like a longshot to make it this spring after accidents piled up, was fairly good in her personal proper. She started the evening by drilling her double-twisting Yurchenko vault, sending the Individuals on a four-apparatus cease on their “Tour” that felt equal elements coronation and celebration.

By the point Biles, the left calf that bothered her throughout qualifying closely taped, stepped onto the ground for the ultimate occasion — a ground train set to music by Taylor Swift and Beyonce — it was over.

She joked she knew she merely wanted to remain on her ft to win. She did greater than that, offering an exclamation level on the U.S.’s third gold in its final 4 journeys to the Video games.

The Individuals stay peerless (if not flawless, that is gymnastics in spite of everything) when at their greatest.

And over two hours in entrance of a crowd that included everybody from tennis nice Serena Williams to actor Natalie Portman, Biles left little doubt about something.

Her standing as the game’s best of all time. Her means to maneuver previous the “twisties” that derailed her in Japan. Her spot within the pantheon of the U.S. Olympic motion.

She now has a staggering 38 medals in main worldwide competitions. Eight of these have come beneath the Olympic rings, shifting her previous Shannon Miller for essentially the most by an American gymnast.

But her return wasn’t a lot about profitable. That’s by no means actually been the purpose anyway, only a byproduct of her unparalleled excellence. It was a few pleasure she had misplaced someplace alongside the way in which.

It appears to have returned. She leaned into the gang that roared at each flip, each leap and, sure, each twist. With her husband — on break from NFL coaching camp — waving an American flag whereas sitting subsequent to her dad and mom, Biles did what she has executed so properly for thus lengthy save for a few troublesome days in Japan throughout a pandemic: she dominated.

Biles met together with her therapist within the morning to place her in the best mindset. There was temporary — very temporary — second of trepidation as she raced down the vault runway, the occasion that started to spin uncontrolled in Tokyo.

Solely this time, she primarily caught her Cheng vault, the one which sends her spinning by way of the air in a fraction of a second.

Afterward, she exhaled.

“I used to be like ‘Sure, please no flashbacks or something,’” Biles mentioned. “However I did really feel a number of aid. And as quickly as I landed I used to be like ’Oh yeah, we’re going to do that.’”

Sure they had been. Identical to all the time.

The one actual drama centered on who would end subsequent to the Individuals on the medal stand.

Italy, which was a stunning second to the U.S. throughout qualifying, returned to the rostrum for the primary time since 1928 by holding off Brazil for silver.

But there was no query concerning the high spot. There hardly ever ever is when Biles is concerned.

The street again to this second has been troublesome at occasions. Unsure. They felt the load of every part on Monday evening. Quite than let it weigh them down, they shed it.

“I feel the speak that we had yesterday positively helped all of us like come collectively tonight,” Lee mentioned. “And it simply made it a lot extra particular.”

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WOODBURN Ore. (KPTV) – The feral cat inhabitants on the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn is one thing that’s laborious to not discover.

“We’ve simply had cats that roam our property since I began in 2016,” mentioned Troy Britting, the Program Director. “I believe we’ve had some humorous issues, just like the cats do dwell below buildings…we’ve all had a gathering disrupted by a cat a time or two.”

Bri McDonald began as a Upkeep Specialist on the website in February, and he or she mentioned it took her only some days to get involved about what she noticed.

“Individuals have been like ‘yeah, they’re simply right here,’” she mentioned. “They’re all feral cats, and nobody’s tending to them in any approach…I used to be getting work orders like, ‘there’s a cat within the ceiling,’ ‘there’s a cat below my ground the place my desk is sitting and there’s a number of of them and so they’re combating.’”

McDonald confirmed FOX 12 across the facility to a number of websites the place she’s found cats hiding out. One spot was beneath a backyard shed, and one was subsequent to the HVAC system outdoors one of many buildings.

She determined to take issues into her personal fingers, rigorously mapping and strategizing easy methods to entice the grownup cats to be able to get them spayed and neutered, after which return them to the power to stop overpopulation and unfold of illness.

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She was capable of borrow some humane cat traps, and it didn’t take lengthy for issues to take off.

“We trapped 15 cats that first spherical, obtained all of them spayed and neutered, made one other appointment, did it once more a pair months later,” McDonald mentioned. “We’re nonetheless discovering a litter per week, so there’s clearly extra to be carried out.”

Native nonprofits have stepped in to assist with the kittens.

“Oregon Humane Society was contacted about this case and requested to soak up some cats and kittens and medically extra fragile kittens who wanted assist,” mentioned Laura Klink, the Public Info Officer with the Oregon Humane Society.

“We’ve taken in two litters with their feral mothers,” mentioned Caroline Joyner, the Communications Director with Meow Village. “In an effort to finish the cycle of breeding, you absorb these kittens, you spay and neuter them and then you definitely undertake them out to properties.”

Workers with Challenge Pooch, a nonprofit that connects the inmates with canine, joined the hassle as well- initially used as a drop-off zone for the kittens discovered on campus.

“To this point, we’ve pulled 75 cats and kittens from campus, 22 grownup cats have been spayed neutered and introduced again to campus, and the remainder of these have been kittens which have been doled out to numerous rescues,” mentioned Sarah Bradham, the Govt Director with Challenge Pooch. “I believe there have been six totally different rescues, have all come collectively to assist these 75 cats and kittens.”

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Meow Village, Oregon Humane Society, Salem Associates of Felines, Tiny Tim’s Tiny Foster Household, and Bottle Child Rescue have all both contributed to the spaying/neutering course of or adoption course of.

Workers members hope for a future the place a few of the youth may also help with this system, and the cats can benefit from the luxurious of a secure residence contained in the gates- inside motive.

“We develop a very wholesome feral cat colony right here and present others that feral cat colonies will be wholesome,” Bradham mentioned.

“This entire place is secured so that you don’t need to look out for coyotes or no matter coming after you, there’s tons of meals, there’s dumpsters in all places,” McDonald mentioned. “Who wouldn’t need to be right here in the event you’re a cat?”

When you’re serious about adopting any of the kittens discovered on the Maclaren Facility, they’re out there for adoption by way of the Meow Village group. In addition they settle for donations and functions for cat foster properties.

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Brouillet stated it was a simple shot as long as a number of shifting situations aligned as he labored aboard a media boat bobbing and altering place within the Pacific.

“If all situations are met — climate, waves, gentle, if the boat driver is in the best place, and if you know the way to make use of your digicam — you may take good pictures of browsing in Teahupo’o,” he informed Time journal. “All the remaining is expertise, timing, and a little bit of luck.”

Organizers’ determination to carry the Olympic occasion on the Tahitian break stunned many as a result of it may be lethal, and accidents, often brought on by contact with its sharp and shallow reef, are a given. Its energy could be godly, as vertical wave top doesn’t start to embody the left-riding vortex’s weight; the Pacific Ocean appears to fold in on itself on the break. It’s additionally the venue most distant from a number metropolis: Teahupo’o is 9,765 miles from Paris.

Medina was rather less technical, explaining his experience extra in metaphysical phrases.

“Right this moment was a dreamy day for browsing,” he stated afterward, the wave propelling him to the lads’s quarterfinals. “I by no means imagined that we may get waves like this within the Olympics.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White Home’s govt chef has retired after practically three a long time of creating meals and cooking up state dinners for 5 completely different presidents and their households.

Cris Comerford is the primary lady to carry the job, and can also be the primary individual of colour to be govt chef. Her final day was Friday. First woman Jill Biden thanked her for her service in a press release on Tuesday.

“I all the time say, meals is love. By her barrier-breaking profession, Chef Cris has led her group with heat and creativity, and nourished our souls alongside the way in which,” Jill Biden mentioned in a press release. “With all our hearts, Joe and I are crammed with gratitude for her dedication and years of service.”

Comerford, 61, sharpened her culinary abilities whereas working at resorts in Chicago and eating places in Washington earlier than the White Home introduced her on in 1995 as an assistant chef.

A naturalized U.S. citizen and a local of the Philippines, she was named govt chef in 2005. Her duties as govt chef included designing and executing menus for state dinners, social occasions, vacation capabilities, receptions and official luncheons.

She and pastry chef Susie Morrison — additionally the primary lady in that job — shaped a duo that has tantalized the style buds of visitors at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their culinary creations for practically a decade.

A lavish state dinner is a instrument of U.S. diplomacy, a excessive honor reserved for America’s longstanding and closest allies and the meals is the signature occasion. Comerford’s final state dinner was for Kenyan President William Ruto and his spouse, Rachel, in Might.

The group served a three-course meal of chilled heirloom tomato soup and a “better of each worlds” important course of smoked beef quick ribs and butter-poached lobster. Dessert was a home made white chocolate basket of raspberries, peaches and different fruit.

Chef and humanitarian José Andrés appeared to interrupt the information Monday night with a put up congratulating her. “You’re a nationwide treasure, a culinary diplomat who has proven the world how an immigrant can have fun American meals & share it with the world’s leaders,” he posted. “Congrats on retiring, we love you Cris.”

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Microsoft Company (MSFT)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The pc software program firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 15 analysts that comply with the inventory is $2.90. This worth represents a 7.81% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr MSFT has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 4.63%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for MSFT is 36.26 vs. an business ratio of 30.70, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Superior Micro Gadgets, Inc. (AMD)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The electrical firm firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 14 analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.47. This worth represents a 17.50% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr AMD has met analyst expectations as soon as and beat the expectations the opposite three quarters. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for AMD is 53.75 vs. an business ratio of 10.90, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Stryker Company (SYK)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The medical merchandise firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 13 analysts that comply with the inventory is $2.79. This worth represents a 9.84% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr SYK has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 6.38%. Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The communications firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 8 analysts that comply with the inventory is $1.72. This worth represents a 21.99% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr ANET has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 15.38%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for ANET is 45.28 vs. an business ratio of 11.50, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Mondelez Worldwide, Inc. (MDLZ)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The meals firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 9 analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.78. This worth represents a 2.63% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr MDLZ has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 7.95%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for MDLZ is nineteen.28 vs. an business ratio of 25.40.

Starbucks Company (SBUX)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The restaurant firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 12 analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.93. This worth represents a 7.00% lower in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. The final two quarters SBUX had destructive earnings surprises; the newest report they missed by -13.92%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for SBUX is 21.06 vs. an business ratio of 27.50.

Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis Restricted (CP)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The transportation (rail) firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the ten analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.74. This worth represents a 19.35% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for CP is 26.37 vs. an business ratio of 17.90, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Public Storage (PSA)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The reit firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 7 analysts that comply with the inventory is $4.20. This worth represents a 1.87% lower in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. PSA missed the consensus earnings per share within the 1st calendar quarter of 2024 by -0.98%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for PSA is 17.94 vs. an business ratio of 13.00, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Digital Arts Inc. (EA)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The gaming firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 9 analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.03. This worth represents a 96.00% lower in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. EA missed the consensus earnings per share within the 1st calendar quarter of 2024 by -15.6%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2025 Value to Earnings ratio for EA is 25.71 vs. an business ratio of 15.80, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The insurance coverage (property & casualty) firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 7 analysts that comply with the inventory is $2.17. This worth represents a 13.02% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr ACGL has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 18.93%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for ACGL is 11.29 vs. an business ratio of 15.60.

Further House Storage Inc (EXR)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The reit firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the 7 analysts that comply with the inventory is $2.00. This worth represents a 2.91% lower in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for EXR is 20.40 vs. an business ratio of 13.00, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

FirstEnergy Corp. (FE)is reporting for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. The electrical energy utilities firm’s consensus earnings per share forecast from the three analysts that comply with the inventory is $0.56. This worth represents a 19.15% enhance in comparison with the identical quarter final yr. Previously yr FE has beat the expectations each quarter. The very best one was within the 1st calendar quarter the place they beat the consensus by 3.77%. Zacks Funding Analysis studies that the 2024 Value to Earnings ratio for FE is 15.38 vs. an business ratio of 13.60, implying that they are going to have the next earnings development than their rivals in the identical business.

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